Evelyn Spence is the writer and collaborator, with professional runner Keira D’Amato, on D’Amato’s forthcoming memoir, Don’t Call It a Comeback (St. Martin’s, September 2025). She writes frequently about adventure travel, fitness, health, and the outdoors—with work that has been honored by Best American Sports Writing and the American Society of Journalists and Authors—and she has profiled roller derby skaters to professional pogo-stickers to Eileen Gu. Publications include Runner’s World, Bicycling, Backpacker, The Red Bulletin, Sunset, Gear Patrol, Prevention, Ski, High Country News, Outside, Bloomberg, AARP: The Magazine, Alaska Airlines Beyond, Women’s Health, Men’s Journal, The Drake, and more. She has been a copywriter for Trek Bikes’ Great Rides program, a collection of hundreds of bike routes across the United States and Europe, and a staff writer at Health. She has worked with Rodale as a developmental editor. During her tenure as the articles and managing editor at Backpacker and Skiing—where she assigned and wrote feature packages, profiles, essays, and departments—both titles were nominated for National Magazine Awards in general excellence.

For the sake of a story, she has kayaked to first ski descents throughout Alaska’s Prince William Sound, ridden a road bike up 14,115-foot Pikes Peak and a mountain bike down Mount Ashland, stayed up all night to shadow a sleep clinician, traversed California’s High Sierra and Slovakia’s High Tatra Mountains on telemark gear, completed the Bataan Memorial Death March in New Mexico’s White Sands Missile Range, skied with reindeer herders in northern Mongolia, and covered Switzerland’s infamous Patrouille des Glaciers backcountry race from a Swiss military helicopter. From debunking the myths of hydration to exploring the downsides of mocktails, she brings curiosity and brightness to every project. 

She has been a resident at the MacDowell Colony, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and the Vermont Studio Center, and she received the Ivan Klima Fellowship in Fiction at Western Michigan University’s Prague Summer Program. She has a B.A. in Art History from Williams College (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) and a Master of Fine Arts in Fiction from Brooklyn College, where she was editor-in-chief of The Brooklyn Review.